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POSTCARD TRANSCRIPTIONS
(Partial transcriptions due to cropped postcard and illegible handwriting.)

August 1919 (?)
To: Miss R. A. Ashe, Sugar Grove, IL
From: R.F.D.

How are all at the Grove? All are able to be around. Got done thrashing…

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November 14, 2006

Dear Ruth Frantz,

I thought you would like to know:

Ashe Road was named after the Ashe Family who owned a farm on that Road. The Ashe name ends with an "e". I'm sorry we don't have much history to pass on…

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WILL A. JOHNSON SR

"Home Sweet Home"

This humble setting honors the memory of the early settlers of Sugar Grove Township. Their creative minds and industrious sprit joined to make Sugar Grove a most desirable place to settle.

Agriculture…

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The first prototype for the Hall Braille Writer was conceived by Frank Hall, Superintendent of the Illinois School for the Blind in 1892. It was created by a local gunsmith and machinist, Gustave Seiber. Hall took the prototype to the Munson…
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